Chapter 2 24-hour countdown

At 8:57 a.m., the Yutai Central Street was full of prosperous appearance at peak times. People were busy going to work, sending their children to school and handling various affairs. Suddenly, time seemed to stop. Everyone who was next to the TV or carried their mobile phones was divided from the affairs at hand. Then there was a few loud "bang" sounds, and a bus hit a big tree on the side of the road, and a sedan ran through a red light like drunkenness and hit a mobile breakfast stall that was about to cross the zebra crossing. The staff of the breakfast stall was knocked away for more than five meters away and fell to the side of the road. The sedan just stopped for a moment and immediately escaped. There were traffic accidents such as rear-end collisions, scratches and random crossings of the road, and screams came one after another. A tall office building farther away, fires and black smoke actually emerged from a high office building.

A young man in a green uniform with the "Wild Rescue" logo walked out of the ramen restaurant and came to the knocked breakfast stall staff. He squatted down to check the victim's injuries and called:

"Is the emergency center? A serious traffic accident occurred at the intersection of Park Road, No. 800 Yutai Central Street. The driver has escaped and there is a wounded person left at the scene. The injured person is in a coma, accompanied by several obvious scratches on the surface. It is initially judged that he suffered a severe concussion and may have a possible rupture of the liver and spleen internal organs. Please send an ambulance to the rescue immediately and notify the hospital to prepare for surgical first aid."

"Received! The ambulance is sent out immediately."

Of course, this young man was Lin Zaishan. He rushed to the front of the bus again, and the passengers on the bus had been evacuated. Lin Zaishan got on the bus through the front door and found someone in the back seat. He rushed over immediately. He quickly looked at it and knew that the passenger was just unconscious but was not in danger of his life. He picked up the passenger and rushed out of the bus. As soon as Lin Zaishan put the passenger in his arms down, he heard a loud noise, and a wave of air rushed over to overturn him to the ground. He turned around and saw that the bus was blown up and the wreckage ignited.

"God, it's so dangerous! It's only a little bit." Lin Zaishan was secretly grateful.

At 9:11, the streets were full of pedestrians running around, and the exclamations became even stronger, and they became overwhelming one after another. Some people had already begun to rob pedestrians and roadside shops.

"Why are the psychological qualities of these people so bad?" Lin Zaishan thought in grief and anger: "It has been less than 30 minutes since the emergency order was issued, and the world has become so chaotic."

At this moment, the sirens were roaring. Two police cars roared, one of them rushed to the vicinity of Lin Zaishan and jumped out of the car. One of the policemen said loudly to three other colleagues:

"We must stick to our posts and protect the safety of the people. We must never leave our posts without authorization. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" The other three policemen answered in unison.

"Xiao Li and Xiao Song were guiding traffic at the intersection, and Xiao Wang and I went to disperse the thugs." The policeman came to Lin Zaishan and saluted and said, "Captain Lin, I am Ma Mingyang from the West District Police Station. Now is a special moment. Can you help me disperse the thugs and maintain the safety of people's lives and property?"

"No problem! But if the wild rescue center has a new dispatch command, I will..."

"I understand!" said Ma Mingyang.

Ma Mingyang and the policeman who called Xiao Wang both pulled out his guns and rushed to a jewelry store. Lin Zaishan rushed to a vehicle with the "Wild Rescue" sign and took out a stab vest and put it on. He took out a 30-centimeter dagger and inserted it into a bag outside his right thigh. He took out a 1.3-meter-long metal hiking pole, and then followed the two policemen to rush towards the jewelry store.

Three gangsters were smashing wildly in the jewelry store with axes in their hands. A female staff member was frightened and shaking all over. Other staff members had already escaped without a trace before the gangsters came in. A gangster jumped onto the counter and hummed a small song proudly. His accomplices were nervous and looked around and said:

"Brother, we've almost done the robbery, let's withdraw."

"Why are you anxious? This time I'm different. The end of the world is coming. The police are busy saving their lives. Who has time to take care of us? Go and put that jade Buddha in a bag."

Another gangster asked, "Brother, if the end of the world really comes, what's the use of us snatching gold, silver and jewelry?"

"You pig's brain! Gold, silver and jewelry are luxury goods in any era. As long as people have high or low status, gold, silver and jewelry will have a market. Do you understand?"

"You're still big brother, you have a vision."

The gangster, known as the eldest brother, jumped off the counter and paced back and forth in the store. His eyes accidentally swept the snow-white thighs of the waitress lying on the ground and a more evil desire immediately emerged. He strode over, grabbed the waitress's hair and picked it up, and saw a pretty face under the messy hair.

"Hehe!" The gangster boss laughed lewdly, reached out and pulled the waitress's uniform.

"Brother, why do you have this kind of atmosphere? We still have to go on the road to grab food."

"Don't worry, it won't take much time to play."

The waitress screamed loudly.

At this time, a majestic voice came from outside: "Listen to the people inside, we are police, you have been surrounded. Surrender leniently and resist leniently. I order you to put down your weapons and come out to surrender."

"At this time, it's time for these damn guys to come out to meddle in other people's business!" The gangster boss cursed angrily: "Brothers, the police are bluffing, don't be afraid." The boss picked up the waitress and blocked her body in front of him, moved her to the door of the jewelry store, and shouted to the outside:

"I have a hostage on hand, you guys get away."

"Let the hostages be released and I go back to the police station, otherwise I will shoot." Ma Mingyang said.

"Who do you scare? You can shoot!"

"I honestly tell you that it is a state of emergency now, and our superiors allow us to shoot and kill on the spot if we encounter criminals who seriously endanger the lives and safety of the people."

"Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?" The gangster boss shook his right hand and the axe in his hand flew towards Ma Mingyang. Ma Mingyang lowered his head and dodged, but Xiao Wang who was following behind failed to dodge. He paniced and stepped on his arm, and the gun in his hand fell to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Ma Mingyang asked Xiao Wang.

Xiao Wang quickly picked up the gun and said, "I'm fine."

Seeing this, the gangster laughed. He suddenly lowered his head and opened his mouth to bite the waitress's pink neck. The waitress screamed. The gangster said with blood in his mouth: "I have been hiding for the rest of my life, and I have been bullied for the rest of my life. Today I will never surrender to you no matter what you say. If you have the absent, come in and catch people, and if you don't have the absent, run away from your life."

"For the last time I warn you that I was authorized to shoot serious criminals on the spot."

"Bah..." The gangster boss looked vomiting on his face.

A "bang" sounded, and a bullet penetrated the front door of the criminal's boss. He leaned weakly on the edge of the door frame. Ma Mingyang rushed in and helped the waitress up. At this time, two other criminals suddenly rushed out from behind the door, and they pushed the waitress to push Ma Mingyang to the side.

"Stop them!" Ma Mingyang shouted to Xiao Wang. Xiao Wang shot the sky to warn. The two gangsters not only did not stop, but ran faster. Seeing that the two gangsters had reached the intersection, Lin Zaishan, holding metal staff, suddenly appeared. He took out two gangsters and hit the gangster's legs. The two gangsters fell to the ground. Ma Mingyang and Xiao Wang rushed over to uniform the gangster. The other two policemen on duty at the intersection rushed over immediately when they saw this.

"Xiao Li, Xiao Song, you two take the criminals back to the police station. Xiao Wang and I will then stop the other criminals."

At 9:39, the three of them arrived at a supermarket with food as the main commodity, which was crowded with citizens snatching goods.

Ma Mingyang shot a gun, and the citizens who were robbing immediately became quiet. "Everyone stopped robbing immediately and left the supermarket and went home immediately!"

Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you, and no one moved. "Bang!" Ma Mingyang shot another shot towards the sky, and everyone immediately scattered.

Ma Mingyang closed the supermarket gate and the three of them came to the park again. Two middle-aged men were fighting each other.

Ma Mingyang shouted: "I am a policeman, please stop!" The two men saw the fully armed policeman, stopped fighting, and walked away separately, yelling at each other.

The three continued patrolling eastward. Suddenly someone shouted in front of him: "Help, it's on fire!" A 12-story office building was emitting thick smoke and fire, like a huge man-eating monster. The main fire point was concentrated on the 6th floor, and people were poking their heads out of several windows above the 6th floor, and some were still shouting for help.

Ma Mingyang quickly dialed the fire emergency number. The emergency system prompted that the fire truck had issued 10 minutes.

"Impossible. The office building is only two kilometers away from the fire brigade's base. It should have arrived 10 minutes ago. The traffic must have been blocked on the road." Ma Mingyang said to Lin Zaishan: "We must immediately clear the traffic and make a passage for the fire truck in 5 minutes, otherwise the survivors in the entire office building may lose their lives!"

"Give orders, horse team."

"I'll go to the remote end to open the road for the fire truck. Xiao Li, you guide pedestrians and vehicles in the middle. Captain Lin asked you to remove all the vehicles in front of the office building. You can smash the windows if necessary."

"Okay!" Xiao Li and Lin Zaishan agreed and immediately took action separately.

Lin Zaishan rushed to a broken car and checked that there was no one in the car. He poked the window glass with a metal stick in his hand, opened the car door and entered the car, started the car and drove it to the sidewalk. He then entered another small bus and drove the bus out of the center of the avenue. In this way, Lin Zaishan moved more than 20 cars away, and the road in front of the office building became smooth.

When he jumped off a pickup truck, a familiar fire alarm sounded. A fire truck drove down to the office building at full speed. Five firefighters quickly jumped off. In less than a minute, they set up high ladders and water guns. One firefighter operated on the fire truck; one firefighter held a water gun, and a powerful water column sprayed on the office building, and the fire quickly dimmed. Another firefighter rose high on the ladder, emitting thick smoke and fire to the 6th floor, and caught a woman who could not stand the smoke and fire and was about to jump off the building; two firefighters rushed into the office building from the first floor without hesitation and searched up the stairs layer by layer. Soon, batches of people were rescued.

Lin Zaishan did not wear fire-proof and high-temperature equipment. He walked to the fire truck and asked the visitor in the car: "Brother, do you still have uniforms and equipment? I'll help too."

The firefighters in the car immediately recognized the famous rescue hero, immediately threw out a big bag and said, "Everyone is in the bag, thank you Captain Lin!"

Without saying a word, Lin Zaishan opened his big bag and took out the firefighter uniform, helmet, fire axe, portable fire extinguisher, headlight, mask and walkie-talkie one by one, and then rushed into the office building.

The smoke rolled in the corridor, and the visibility was extremely poor. The automatic fire extinguishing sprinklers in the corridor and in the office were spraying water. "Is anyone?" Lin Zaishan searched and shouted. No one answered on the 1st to 5th floors. He soon arrived at the 6th floor, where the fire was the most concentrated. As soon as he went up to the 6th floor, he felt that the temperature was much higher.

"Is anyone?" Lin Zaishan shouted.

"There are people here..." a faint voice replied.

Lin Zaishan followed the sound, and bent down and touched it, and felt the fire uniform.

The firefighter was obviously injured. He said in a faint voice: "I just found a survivor in the third office west. When I carried him out, an explosion suddenly occurred in the room. The source of the explosion is unknown. You should take the injured person... out."

"What do you do?"

"I'm fine. I'm a firefighter, so I should...be the last one... to get out of the fire."

"I won't leave you here alone." Lin Zaishan said resolutely. He placed the firefighter on his back, then bent down to pick up the survivor, and shouted to the firefighter: "Hold me tightly!"

The firefighter struggled and said, "You will lose energy like this and it will be difficult to get out in time."

"You underestimate me too much, why don't we make a bet. If I take you out at the same time, you invite me to a big meal; if I can't, I will invite you to a skewers. Haha! Get ready, I'm going to set off!" Lin Zaishan shouted and rushed towards the smoke-filled corridor.

Fifth floor, fourth floor, third floor, second floor, and first floor, just as Lin Zaishan led the two of them out of the office building at the same time, another loud bang, and a new and more serious explosion occurred. This explosion shattered all the glass of the office building and destroyed the load-bearing structure. The entire building trembled violently with cracks and slight tilts.

The firefighter who was working outside helped Lin Zaishan and others up and shouted loudly: "The building is about to collapse, everyone should evacuate quickly!" The fire truck accelerated and drove away from the office building section, and Lin Zaishan and others followed behind and ran wildly.

"Boom!" A loud noise of the earth shaking, and the twelve-story office building fell down. The loud noise of the collapse of the building did not cover the last scream of the remaining people on the building.

The fire truck stopped, and the five firefighters, three policemen who came to assist, 12 rescued personnel, and Lin Zaishan, a temporary guest-game fire rescuer (except those who were unconscious) all looked silently at the newly generated huge ruin not far away.

"We need large excavation equipment!" said the fire chief.

"As far as I know, there is no large-scale equipment in Yutai County that can operate under such conditions. The nearest large excavator is in Langyaling, which is more than 100 kilometers away," said Lin Zaishan.

"Then ask the superior department! Find someone to shunt the car. Now, all the firefighters come with me and do everything possible to rescue the survivors. Even if they dig with their hands, they will never give up!" the fire brigade commanded.

"Yes!" All the firefighters agreed in unison. They rushed onto the fire truck and drove towards the ruins again.

Lin Zaishan and others were about to follow him when Ma Mingyang's intercom suddenly rang: "There was a riot in Yutai High School, and there were casualties. Please come quickly to stop it!"

Ma Mingyang ordered: "All police officers, follow me to Yutai High School immediately!" Several policemen rushed into the police car and roared towards Yutai High School. Lin Zaishan was about to follow up, but an obese middle-aged woman jumped out of nowhere and grabbed his arm, and said anxiously:

"Young man, my son is gone, please help me find it!"

"How old is your son? Where did he disappear?"

"My son was three years old and was missing in the park."

"Okay, I'll go with you now."

The park is nearby. Lin Zaishan came to the park gate in three or two steps. The park, which was usually lively, is now in chaos: hundreds of tourists ran around in panic, with noises and screams everywhere. Under a big tree, a wave of old people who had not returned home were gathering together and discussing anxiously.

"Do you have a photo of your son?" Lin Zaishan asked the middle-aged woman.

"Yes, look how handsome my son is!" The middle-aged woman handed over a photo with great pride.

In the photo, a fat white-haired pet dog is sticking out his tongue with a cute look.

"Is this your son?" Lin Zaishan suddenly felt a little depressed.

"Yes! My son's name is Lele, so he is obedient."
To be continued...